Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! A Statement from the Co-Executive Directors of Positive Women’s Network-USA on the 2024 General Election As we watch the 2024 election results unfold, it’s natural [...]
Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN! Tomorrow is Election Day! As you know by now, PWN has been working hard in anticipation of November 5th, Election Day! Our campaign leaders in Pennsylvania, [...]
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Want to receive messages like this directly in your inbox? Sign up for the PWN email list here! Positive Women's Network-USA is commemorating the 4th annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) national day of action [...]
Positive Women's Network-USA is commemorating the 4th annual Celebrate and Honor Black Women in the HIV Movement (CHBW) national day of action! Black women have always led the way in innovating solutions for the HIV community, but have not consistently [...]
Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🗳 2024 Election [...]
by Elena Ferguson and Sallie Thomas, in collaboration with all of PWN's Black staff members.June 19th, 2024 Today Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) commemorates Juneteenth, in recognition of the emancipation of Black people enslaved across the United States. Juneteenth is observed as [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! We've come a long way since 2008, when 28 diverse women leaders living with HIV came together to form a network to strengthen the [...]
Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥 Hot Topic: Harm [...]
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Subscribe for emails like this one from PWN directly in your inbox! 🌻 PWN Spring Voter Campaigns Wrap Up! 🌻 Our voter engagement teams have been working hard these past weeks mobilizing and educating their communities. HUGE congratulations to [...]
Congratulations to April 2024 Shero of the Month: Brielle Gillis of Texas!Check out her interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Millicent Foster of Louisiana. Brielle is an active member of the PWN Greater Houston Area chapter in Texas, and a [...]
Want messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN! One month ago, Positive Women's Network descended on Washington, D.C. to make the voices of trans and cis women living with HIV heard, and fight for [...]
By Katie Willingham The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA. April 15, 2024 Over 600 advocates from across the country descended on Washington, [...]
By Tana Pradia The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.April 15, 2024 We, as members of PWN USA came to AIDSWatch, we came [...]
By Marcya Gullatte The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.April 15, 2024 “When you see something that is not right, not fair, not [...]
By Susan MullThe views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.April 15, 2024 How does one parse every significant activity that happened at AIDSWatch 2024 [...]
Want updates like this one directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. Positive Women's Network-USA [...]
Want content like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN! There are over 1.6 million trans, non-binary, and gender-expansive youth (age 13+) and adults across the United States. Every day we see the rights, dignity, and [...]
Want this content directly in your inbox? Subscribe for emails from PWN here! 🌸 PWN-PA Spring Voter Campaign Launches! 🌸 PWN-Pennsylvania recently launched their spring voter engagement campaign! Our phone bankers & canvassers will be talking to community members [...]
Congratulations to March 2024 Shero of the Month: Millicent Foster of Louisiana!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Kenya Moussa of Pennsylvania. Millicent is PWN-LA’s co-chair and has been doing a phenomenal job advocating for HIV decriminalization [...]
Congratulations to February 2024 Shero of the Month: Kenya Moussa of Pennsylvania!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Dr. Carrie Foote of Indiana. Kenya is PWN-PA's co-chair and a Health Not Prisons Collective advocate doing amazing work [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. Uplifting the Demands [...]
Want to receive messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN! Positive Women’s Network USA commemorated National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in so many ways–we want to make sure you had a [...]
Want to receive messages like this directly in your inbox? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN! Hydeia Broadbent, the first Black youth activist born with HIV to publically share her HIV status at the age of 5, tragically passed [...]
Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. PWN is throwing down for the election and using our time wisely. Instead of doing the normal [...]
The Positive Women’s Network USA community is deeply saddened by the passing of long-time community leader, actress, author, activist, advocate, and trailblazer, Cecilia Gentili.Ceclia has been a force among trans women of color not only in the U.S. but around [...]
Want more content like this? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! On this National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we must resist surveillance technology like MHS by Elena Ferguson, PWN Policy Specialist National Black HIV AIDS Awareness [...]
Positive Women’s Network - USA is excited to announce our new leadership team: Marnina Miller and Keiva Lei Cadena will jointly serve as co-executive directors starting today. “We can’t imagine a better team to lead PWN-USA into its bright future,” [...]
Congratulations to January 2024 Shero of the Month: Dr. Carrie Foote of Indiana!Check out her beautiful interview conducted by last month’s Shero, Lashanda Salinas of Tennessee. Dr. Foote has been a PWN member for over 10 years and done incredible [...]
Congratulations to December 2023 Shero of the Month: Lashanda Salinas of Tennessee!Don’t miss this moving conversation between Lashanda and our previous Shero, Grace O. Rutha of Pennsylvania, as they discuss Lashanda's recent victory in the battle against HIV criminalization, her [...]
Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated December 1st as World AIDS Day (WAD), created to unite people across the globe in support of people living with HIV, to [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Another Powerful Voter Campaign In the Books! 7,594 voters contacted, 6,114 doors knocked, 3,292 supporters identified, 25+ volunteers and staff, 6 jam-packed weeks, 3 voter [...]
Subscribe for monthly policy updates from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥Hot Topic: Genocide in Palestine The genocide in Palestine [...]
Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox! Join us in observing Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20th), as we honor the lives of our siblings of trans experience we lost too soon, and celebrate the resistance and [...]
Congratulations to October 2023 Shero of the Month: Grace O. Rutha of Pennsylvania!Don't miss this fascinating conversation between Grace and our previous Shero, Myra Franks of Alabama, as they discuss Grace's experiences as a journalist, a political asylee, a woman [...]
The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.October 13, 2023--the following is an interview of Kenya Moussa, PWN-PA Chapter co-chair and Health Not Prisons [...]
The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.By: Myra Ann Franks, PWN-AL outreach coordinatorSeptember 29, 2023Several years after my diagnosis, my case manager said [...]
Sign up to receive these monthly updates in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥Hot Topic: The BudgetThe U.S. narrowly avoided another federal government shutdown. Congress [...]
Subscribe to receive news like this from PWN in your inbox!We are excited to announce that we are seeking visionary and strategic leaders to build on Naina and Venita's legacy and step into the role of PWN’s Co-Executive Directors! We are looking [...]
Subscribe for #PWNVotes updates in your inbox!What time is it? Election time! Yep, elections don’t just happen in even years.Local and state elections are just as important as congressional midterms and presidential elections, sometimes even more so, as life-changing policies [...]
The views and opinions expressed in this piece are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the position of Positive Women’s Network – USA.by: Marcya GullatteSeptember 20, 2023HIV is not a crime, or is it?As of 2022, thirty-five states have [...]
Sign up to receive these monthly updates in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.🔥Hot Topic: The Supreme Court is teed up, once again, for [...]
Subscribe for emails from PWN like this one in your inbox!We are writing with big news to share. After more than 15 years of helping to steward Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), Naina Khanna (they/she), founding co-executive director of PWN, will be [...]
Black women have always been the backbone of the HIV movement, fighting battles on multiple fronts despite being underpaid, systemically undervalued, and invisiblized. It is long past time for Black women to be given their flowers for all they’ve done. This [...]
Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx.🔥Hot Topic: Budget and AppropriationsThe federal budget [...]
June 19, 2023Today Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN) commemorates Juneteenth, in recognition of the emancipation of Black people enslaved across the United States. In the spirit of celebrating and honoring Black women, we want to express our gratitude and give flowers [...]
#HIVResists May Monthly Policy UpdateWas this email forwarded to you? Subscribe for bi-monthly emails from PWN in your inbox!Content Warning: many of these updates include information about harmful attacks on Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ+ folx. 🔥Hot [...]